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The president's trip was a pageant of disdain, delusion and provocation masquerading as a respite from his troubles at home.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 14, 2007
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Having never expressed remorse for his crime, Scooter Libby instead enlisted his neoconservative friends to win him reduced prison time.
By Sidney Blumenthal
June 7, 2007
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The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 31, 2007
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A lead architect of the Iraq war, he believed shock and awe would transform the Middle East. But his policies failed -- along with his tenure at the World Bank.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 24, 2007
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Under Bush, loyalty has reigned supreme. But as his presidency unravels, his obligation to his faithful servants -- from Gonzales to Wolfowitz -- has become perilously relative.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 17, 2007
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Bush plays naughty boy to the queen at his not-so-royal state dinner. But all those white ties couldn't hide his low poll numbers.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 10, 2007
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The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 3, 2007
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To understand how Bush justifies a torture policy that is the bane of our nation, consider the sentimental cowboy art that decks his Oval Office walls.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 26, 2007
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Not only did the World Bank president find his companion Shaha Ali Riza a cushy job in the State Department, but she received a security clearance -- unprecedented for a foreign national.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 19, 2007
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It's up to Congress to save the executive branch from Bush's and Rove's radical experiment to transform it forever.
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 12, 2007
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Is the former Bush pollster a true believer turned disillusioned critic, or was he an opportunist from the get-go?
By Sidney Blumenthal
April 5, 2007
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The discovery of a previously unknown treasure chest of e-mails buried by the Bush administration may prove to be as informative as Nixon's secret White House tapes.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 29, 2007
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In the U.S. attorney scandal, Alberto Gonzales gave orders, but he also took them -- from Karl Rove, who plotted to turn the federal criminal justice system into the Republican Holy Office of the Inquisition.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 22, 2007
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The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 15, 2007
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While Cheney's former aide prays for a presidential pardon, Bush and Rove hold forth in their neocon salon, and the coverup continues.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 8, 2007
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The vice president slinks home from a disastrous trip where a failed assassination attempt was only the loudest proof that his war policies have emboldened al-Qaida and the Taliban.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 1, 2007
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Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 22, 2007
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In the courtroom, I watched Libby's lawyers grill Bob Woodward and Robert Novak, trying and failing to obscure the charges against the vice president's man.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 15, 2007
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As the president and Republicans continue to hype the surge -- and stifle debate about it -- Bush's own war planners are preparing for failure in Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 8, 2007
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The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 1, 2007
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Unlike past presidents dealing with the consequences of war, Bush has walled himself off from the public and the Congress it elected.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 23, 2007
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Hitching his political wagon to Bush has hurt the senator's chances to become president. But as his political colleagues can attest, it's the Republican front-runner's volatile temper that may derail his Straight Talk Express for good.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 18, 2007
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After signaling support for James Baker's Iraq proposals, Condi caved and stood faithfully by the president's failing policies -- assuring her irrelevance, and that of the State Department.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 10, 2007
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Ford's posthumous condemnation of the Iraq war shows that the struggle for the soul of the GOP begun in the Nixon years is as relevant now as ever.
By Sidney Blumenthal
January 3, 2007
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A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war.
By Sidney Blumenthal
December 20, 2006
Bush's European disaster
The Libby lobby's pardon campaign
America is not Bush
Wolfowitz's tomb
All hail the king
The impertinent prince
George Tenet, spook for all seasons
From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib
Wolfowitz's girlfriend problem
Upending the Mayberry Machiavellis
Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion
Follow the e-mails
What Bush is hiding
All roads lead to Rove
Libby and the White House book club
How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan
Libby's last disinformation campaign
Libby's cynical defense
The Pentagon's not-so-little secret
How Libby became Cheney's pawn
State of indifference
The fighting side of McCain
Shuttle without diplomacy
No time to heal
Behind Bush's "new way forward"
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